This Game Is Too Realistic

"... Detected radio activity, about four kilometers ahead, the signal activity is low and cannot be analyzed."

"Can you identify the other party?"

"Obviously not, we don’t know anything about the situation here... I suggest we find a nearby native and ask about the situation."

"Good idea."

Looking at the street signs marked with place names, Lu Yang looked up at the dead quiet city ahead, his eyebrows frowned under his helmet. “Is this ​Clearspring City?”

​Clearspring City was located in the south of the River Valley Province. As one of the important hubs of the central urban agglomeration, hundreds of millions of people once lived there.

However, that was a thing of the past. The people living there were not a fraction of what they used to be.

Lu Yang stretched out his index finger, tapped the side of the helmet lightly, and quickly retrieved the geographic information image of the Clearspring area from the database.

Compared to the good times before the war, it looked like it was a manifestation of hell. There was only desolation, ruin, depression, and death.

"This damn war..." Lu Yang checked the map, waved his fist forward, and brought his four team members along the wreckage of the viaduct.

It was not just ​Clearspring City that has turned into a ruined city. If they wanted to reminisce about the past, they could think all they want from the horizon all the way to the Kuiper Belt.

Of course, it was useless to do so.

The reason why they came all the way from the East Coast wasn’t for archaeology or for filming documentaries. They were planning to move west into the wilderness, to find the last hope of human civilization, the legendary Shelter 0.

As for why they stopped...

To be honest, Lu Yang didn’t want to either.

Unfortunately, something went wrong with their transport.

The only way to get it fixed as soon as possible was to seek help from nearby survivors. He didn’t want to waste time staying for several months.

From his experience during the trip, the moment they took a break for more than a month, a steady stream if troubles would come their way.

"Captain, there is a drone watching us." The marine walking on Lu Yang’s left raised his head, looked at the airspace directly ahead, and continued in a playful tone. "It’s a cute little guy... I don’t have a matching model in my database, but based on its appearance, it should be modified from a civilian drone before the war. It’s not bad that it can fly so high."

Another marine said lazily, "Looks like there should be a shelter nearby. Great, we don’t have to deal with the primitive natives anymore."

"How do you know that the people living in the shelter are not primitive natives? You forgot the blue coat we saw last time? He kept claiming that he was from Shelter 117, and then he swallowed the chewing gum I gave him."

"Hahaha!" As he said, there was an uncontrollable laughter in the communication channel.

Obviously, they didn’t take the little guy in the sky to heart.

"Stop messing around. Others are watching us."

Pulling out the signal interference gun stuck in his waist, the marine walking on the outermost side cast an strange glance at his captain. "Do you need me to shoot it down?"

"No." Lu Yang gestured to his comrades beside him to stop, and then waved to the sky, indicating that he had spotted it.

"Friends from afar, we bear no ill intentions. If it’s convenient, can we talk?" Lu Yang was not sure whether the drone had a sound detection system, so he turned on the speaker on the exoframe helmet and expressed his intention with a loud voice.

The sound echoed in the ruins.

Maybe it was because of his voice, or probably it was the person realized that he had been found, the drone lowered its altitude and stopped before them.

It was a silver-white sphere, and it was surprisingly small. The propeller blades were made of unknown material, and it was silent when flying.

Lu Yang watched it stop in front of him, circled around him, and then slowly flew towards the wetland park ahead.

The team members on the side exchanged glances before muttering to each other.

"Is this a gesture of friendliness?"

"Probably, it seems to be inviting us to come over."

"Captain, do we want to go over?"

Lu Yang thought for a moment and said. "Wang Yi, you stay behind and look for high ground to observe the situation. Everyone else, follow me!”

"Yes!"

...

On the third floor of the nursing home in the outpost…

Looking at the four people entering the wetland park through the screen on his arm, Chu Guang’s face showed a little solemnity.

Exoframe!

He had only heard of this thing from the mouths of the survivors before, but now seeing it with his own eyes for the first time, he didn’t expect it to be more exaggerated than he imagined.

The thick full protective armor covered every inch of their skin, and the rectangular modular rifle in their hands exuded a cold light.

They were daunting, like humanoid tanks coming out of a sci-fi movie.

Chu Guang even wondered that if a normal caliber bullet hit them, it would probably be no different from scratching a tickling.

The heavyweight armor and gear didn’t affect their mobility in the slightest. At least from the way they moved through the jungle and jumped over obstacles, it was like playing to them.

Chu Guang roughly estimated that the equipment of these people was at least 1.5 tons or even 2 tons, and it should be driven by fusion batteries.

Just now, he was operating the "Hummingbird" to fly around an exoframe, but he didn’t see any obvious fuel tank or battery structure. If it was powered by fuel cells such as solid hydrogen, although the fuel density could be made very high, it still wouldn’t reach this degree.

Obviously, the exoframes these guys were wearing were quality machinery!

If there was a conflict, it was estimated that in the entire outpost, only the hammer behind him could pose a certain threat to their armor.

Compared to these people, the green-skinned muscular guys on 76th Street were nothing.

"Little Seven, you go back to the ground first."

Little Seven asked Chu Guang as it tilted the camera and looked at Chu Guang.

"But master, it’s only afternoon."

"It doesn’t matter what time it is. I’m not sure if those people outside are enemies or friends. If there is a conflict, I’m afraid I won’t have time to carry you down. So it’s safer to go down first.."

"Although Little Seven is very happy that master cares about me, Little Seven will not leave master and hide alone. Also, master, you don’t need to be too nervous, those people probably came out of a shelter, they won’t give us a hard time."

Chu Guang glanced at Little Seven in surprise. "Can you see that?"

Little Seven continued to him, "Mhm, but not one hundred percent certain. But the electromagnetic rifles in their hands do look like standard weapons used before the great war. They didn’t take our drone either. Instead, they took the initiative to show kindness to us... If they came with hostility, I always felt that there was no need to do so much. What do you think, Master?"

"Me? I don’t know, but I generally won’t pin my hopes on others to be kind." After thinking for a moment, Chu Guang weighed the EMP grenade in his hand and shoved it into his pocket.

He didn’t know how much damage their weapons could do to exoframes, but it was better than nothing.

Even if it could only paralyze the other party’s electronic equipment for two seconds, it could buy two more seconds for him.

Chu Guang would control it such that they would complete their negotiations while standing three meters away from each other.

In this way, even in the event of an accident, he could use the Nitrogen-Powered Hammer in his hand to teach the opponent a profound lesson.

...

The north gate of the outpost.

Looking at the four iron lumps coming from a distance, the players in the market at the north gate showed curious expressions.

"Holy shit! What is that?"

"Could it be the exoframe mentioned on the official website!"

"Where did these NPCs come from?"

"After a rational analysis, this game should have a setting to hide the degree of prosperity. When the degree of prosperity reaches a certain level, it will attract wild NPCs to visit us!"

"Their guns are so awesome... To be honest, I want to buy it!"

"The price is at least 100,000 silver coins, so go and buy one."

"Damn!"

Autumn Weed and Autumn Leaves, who were sitting in the market stall, also noticed the situation outside the market.

Looking at the four iron lumps approaching the north door, Autumn Leaves blinked curiously. "Elder Sister, what is that? Their armor is prettier than the administrator’s."

"I don’t know... It seems to be called an exoframe," Autumn Weed nervously took her little sister’s hand and pulled her into her arms, "Don’t stare at them."

Obviously, the blue coats around them didn’t know those people.

When a group of strangers with live ammunition suddenly appeared at their door, no matter what the circumstances were, it could not be assumed that they came with good intentions.

Should I go back to tell the patriarch?

Autumn Weed thought nervously.

Just then, a figure appeared at the north gate.

The administrator, who was carrying a long warhammer, walked out of the outpost surrounded by several blue coats.

Looking at the man walking towards them, a marine next to Lu Yang couldn’t help teasing in the communication channel. "Did you see that hammer on his back? I’ve never seen such a strange weapon… Speaking of which, is it even a weapon?"

"Shut up." Glancing at the teammate beside him warningly, Lu Yang put the weapon in his hand behind his back. He raised his index finger and tapped on the side of the helmet, retracting the visor covering his face as a gesture of friendship.

"Are you from a shelter?"

"I’m the administrator of Shelter 404. You can call me Chu Guang." Stopping in front of the man, Chu Guang stared sharply at him and said, "Who are you? Why are you here?"

"I’m Lu Yang, an employee of Enterprise, who works in the First Pioneering Corps of the Overseas Business Department of the Silver Wing Corporate Group. We come from the east coast and are heading over to the west to find something. We have no ill intentions, we just happened to pass by."

Chu Guang heard of the Enterprise before. It was said to be a large survivor’s stronghold on the east coast. Its predecessor was said to be Shelter 6, but there were some who said that they were from Shelter 66 instead. Their sphere of influence was massive, and it was said to include an entire province on the east coast.

However, due to its special expansion method, Enterprise had very weak control over the branch companies within its sphere of influence, and the assets truly controlled by them might only be a survivor stronghold that was slightly larger than Boulder Town.

Many caravans that were obviously not working for Enterprise, or even traders from the east coast, liked to do business under their banner.

As for the Silver Wing Corporate Group, it was probably a branch company. Maybe they just established it to achieve a certain purpose. Anyway, Chu Guang had never even heard of it.

The straight-line distance from the east coast to the River Valley Province was thousands of kilometers. Of course, they would need to travel further in real life. They might need to travel for tens of thousands of kilometers in order to get there.

With such long distance, any news that arrived would be slightly distorted.

In short, no matter who they were loyal to, just based on the fact they were able to walk from the east coast to the River Valley Province meant that they couldn’t underestimate the equipment and strength of the group.

Although Chu Guang was curious about what the Enterprise was going to look for in the west, he knew that even if he asked, they would probably not tell him, so he didn’t bother.

After staring at Lu Yang for a while, Chu Guang asked, "Is what you are looking for in Clearspring City?"

Lu Yang shook his head and said. "Of course not. River Valley Province can only be regarded as the middle of the continent at best, and what we call the west is an even further place."

After a pause, he looked at Chu Guang and continued, "I will be honest with you, our main force is stationed in an open area about 10 kilometers away from here. If we can, we don’t want to stay here, but unfortunately our Pioneer has encountered a small problem so we can only come here to look for help."

Chu Guang couldn’t help but frown, "What is the Pioneer you are referring to?"

"You can think of it as our vehicle. Its predecessor was four SC-500 Crawler Transport Platforms, but we modified them a little bit and put them together, adding some modular facilities suitable for long-distance travel. As for the specifics..." Lu Yang didn’t know how to describe it, so he could only roughly gesture with his hands, "In short, it’s huge!"

"Crawler Transport Platform?"

Confused by his general description, Chu Guang couldn’t help but frown, "Can you be more specific? For example, length, width or tonnage..."

Lu Yang thought for a while before he replied, "In terms of tonnage, it’s about 12,000 tons!"

?!?!

What the fuck?! Twelve thousand tons?!

Chu Guang was completely taken back by how heavy it was.

If he remembered correctly, the Gustav Railway Gun was only 1,500 tons, right?

Even the crawler-type transport platform used to transport the giant rocket such as the Saturn V had a total weight of 3,000 tons, and a total load bearing weight of only 8,000 tons...

12,000 tons!

Were they driving the vehicle on land?!

Chu Guang didn’t ask whether the 12,000 tons was the net weight or the maximum carrying capacity. Whatever it was, the number was beyond his understanding.

It was really hard for him to imagine how such massive structure was moving about on the wasteland.

Whatever it was, it was definitely not powered by fuel like conventional cars.

Recovering from the shock, Chu Guang took a deep breath and shook his head, looking at Lu Yang who had a trace of anticipation on his face.

"I’m sorry to disappoint you, although there are some engineers in our shelter… It’s completely beyond their capabilities to help you with whatever you just described. I’m afraid we can’t help you!"

Not to mention that it was beyond their abilities, for his players, a transport carrier like that could only be explained if he told them it was related to some fictional setting in game.

Chu Guang was suddenly curious about how such a massive carrier would look like.

If he could, he would like to take a photo and post it on the official website.

Seeing that the administrator had misunderstood what he meant, Lu Yang quickly waved his hand to explain, "No no no, my friend, you’ve misunderstood it! We are not asking you for technical help, we have our own engineers and production tools, and we know how to fix broken parts. The problem is that we don’t have enough manpower, and our reserves of materials and energy are almost out.”

So to sum up, there is a shortage of people, a lack of resources, and electricity?

But I am short of those things too!

Chu Guang looked at him and asked cautiously, "So what is your proposal?"

Lu Yang said in a sincere tone: "We hope you can lend us some people to help us collect resources in the area. In addition, we also need a guide who is familiar with the area. We know where to find what we need. Of course, we won’t let you help us for free, we will pay you."

Hearing that he would be paid, Chu Guang instantly perked up.

Based on the proposal, they seemed to know where to find the fuel for nuclear fusion!

That would actually be amazing!

With a happy smile on his face, Chu Guang stretched out his right hand. "Of course! No problem, my friend, helping others is the most noble virtue!"

"But the snowstorm seems to be growing stronger. If you are not in a rush, let’s talk inside."